- Nelson, Robert Henry. "The Privatization of Zoning." Private Neighborhoods and the Transformation of Local Government. Urban Inst Pr, 2005. 139-49. Google Books. Google. Web. <http://books.google.com/books?id=V8TUojBxYKAC&pg=PA139&lpg=PA139&dq=zoning+trends+in+the+20th+century&source=bl&ots=jkuHl6J1li&sig=8JGW5nU9nSEJ0FX53DdnK4yllmI&hl=en&ei=d52vTrCYGojpgQfV6pm9AQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CCUQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=zoning%20trends%20in%20the%2020th%20century&f=false>.
- Henry Robert Nelson is a professor at the School of Public Policy at the University of Maryland. He has also written Zoning and Property Rights (1977), Public Lands and Private Rights: the Failure of Scientific Management (1995), and many others. He received his PhD in Economics from Princeton University. He is a nationally recognized authority in local zoning and property rights to housing in the United States.
- In recent years, private neighborhood associations have become important attributes of local government. More than 50 million Americans now live in these neighborhoods. This book reviews the history of neighborhood associations, explains the reasons for their recent explosive growth, and speculates on their future role in American society.
- The argument is fleshed out using examples, historical evidence, and a comprehensible chronological account of the formation of today’s modern neighborhoods and subsequent governments
- (a) “[In] the 1960s and 1970s…a neighborhood movement arose to advocate decentralizing local governance. The neighborhood movement was mostly concerned with local governments in the public sector” (b) “The private status of the neighborhood association gives it an option to experiment more freely with new governing methods” (c) “…the history of collective action to control land use did not begin with a neighborhood association. The protection of shared environments began instead with zoning” (pg 139)
- Some of the books main points that support my argument are as follows: Public zoning in suburban areas was a way to protect the American residential household from crime, congestion, and pollution. Suburban zoning began to exclude different types of residential households like apartment housing, multi-family dwellings and publicly subsidized housing. Including only single family homes, the American suburb flourished and established the stereotypical homogenous character of suburban neighborhoods we know nowadays.
- In my presentation and wiki post, I used how the book talked about the homogeneous and therefor exclusivity of suburbs created by zoning. I related how that decentralizes neighborhoods. I also used the following quote: “zoning created the power to exclude others from the use of a common neighborhood environment” (136).
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